Menu Plan Monday - Mar. 28, 2011

I am so excited for this week's menu! And I nearly started singing "Party in My Tummy" - what a mom moment!

Make sure you go link up at orgjunkie.com/

Tuesday, Mar. 29

• Caramel Biscuit Bites
• Chicken nuggets and fries
• Mexican Shepherd's Pie

Wednesday, Mar. 30

• Glazed Raisin-Cinnamon Biscuits
• Grilled cheese and veggies to dip
• Ultimate Tatortot Casserole

Thursday, Mar. 31

• Cereal
• Homemade bagel bites
• Leftovers

Friday, April 1

• Caramel Pull Aparts
• Rice and yogurt
• Freezer meal: Chicken & Pepper Pasta Bake

Saturday, April 2

• Donut Muffins
• Leftovers
• Creamy Chicken Pockets with broccoli

Sunday, April 3

• Poptarts
• Waffles
• Spaghetti with Slow-Simmered Spaghetti Sauce, Rhodes Buttery Breadsticks and green beans

Monday, April 4

• EZ Doughnuts
• Mac'n'Cheese with tuna
• Leftovers

Extras: Chunky Brownie Cookies, Hostess Cupcake Cake, Homemade Mozzarella Sticks and Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

My goal this week is to make EVERY breakfast item on my list because I always cop out in the mornings. I'm definitely not a morning person. :/

Elbow Spaghetti

My kids are a bit "by the book" - they love mac'n'cheese. I feel guilty as a mom feeding them processed crap from a box, but when I make it from scratch, it's always missing that delicious processed cheese taste. So sometimes for lunch, I make them what I call elbow spaghetti. My kids love spaghetti.

Good Ole Sweet Tea

I don't like sweet tea....well, I don't like COLD sweet tea.

That probably makes me a freak of nature, right? My stepdad makes some KILLER sweet tea. My husband doubted that killer sweet tea recipe until I made it and he tried it. Have you all ever had Mayfield sweet tea? That's my husband's favorite and he said this is unbelievably close to Mayfield's.

I normally wouldn't make sweet tea for myself, but I've been sick for a little over a week now and I needed some hot tea for my sore throat.

Turkey Chili with Beans

Confession time: I have a problem. My problem is my appetite...coupled with cravings. I am seriously obsessed with food. In fact, right now while I'm typing up this post, I'm watching "Good Eats." I'm not really a bandwagon type person...I like to do my own thing and in my own way...but when everyone keeps talking about turkey chili...yeah, you best believe I am on that bandwagon.

Skillet Taco Macaroni

I cannot stress how delicious this recipe is...at all.
It sounds like nothing special, but do not doubt the epic flavor behind these everyday ingredients :)

Menu Plan Monday - 3.21.2011

Another Monday - I'm actually looking forward to Mondays now :]

Again, if you haven't been to orgjunkie.com/ you HAVE to check it out!! I'm about to buy her book Clutter Rehab because I have a lot of clutter and I need some rehab. I'll most likely blog about it on my own personal blog - feel free to follow me, I don't mind.

This week's menu includes:
Tuesday

• Breakfast: Bacon Cheese Pull-Aparts
• Lunch: broccoli and cheese rice and yogurt
• Dinner: Mexican Chicken

Wednesday

• Breakfast: cereal
• Lunch: chicken nuggets and fries
• Dinner: Tatortot Casserole

Thursday

• Breakfast: Baked Pumpkin Donuts
• Lunch: Leftovers or Wendys
• Dinner: Friendly's (Eat Out - we will be going into town this day - I haven't been into town in a while now)

Friday

• Breakfast: blueberry waffles
• Lunch: grilled cheese and applesauce
• Dinner: Crockpot Chili Dogs and chips

Saturday

• Breakfast: Caramel Biscuit Bites
• Lunch: pizza
• Dinner: Chicken Rolls and green beans

Sunday

• Breakfast: poptarts
• Lunch: mac and cheese and applesauce or yogurt
• Dinner: Pepperoni Pizza Twist and salad

Monday

• Breakfast: Glazed Raisin-Cinnamon Biscuits
• Lunch: hot dogs, chips and yogurt
• Dinner: Perfect Pancakes and scrambled eggs

Extras

• Chunky Brownie Cookies
• Copycat Wendy's Frosty

Stuffed Peppers

This is probably one of my most favorite recipes in my arsenal. I always make the full recipe and then freeze half of the meat mixture and buy half the amount of bell peppers, so I have a cheap meal for some day in the future.

Walking Tacos

This is adapted from Picky Palate's Walking Taco recipe.

Menu Plan Monday - Mar. 14

It's that time again :)

I encourage everyone to do a menu plan and then link up at orgjunkie.com/

Here's what we're having this week:

• Turkey Chili with Beans
• Leftovers (Stuffed Peppers, Cheesy CP Chicken and Turkey Chili)
• Spaghetti with Alice Jo's spaghetti sauce, Cheesy Garlic Pull Aparts and green beans
• Freezer meal - Mexican Chicken and Rice Dinner
• Leftovers (spaghetti and freezer meal)
• Skillet Taco Macaroni
• Breakfast Burritos

Copycat Shamrock Shake

Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day - these are super simple and super delicious :)

Cherry Berry Cobbler

Sometimes I think that Betty Crocker is should be a saint. Whoever she may be :)

Fried Rice

Here is a versatile recipe - you can go with meatless, chicken, shrimp, pork or steak :)
My camera decided to eat some of the pictures so you'll have to excuse that part!

Cookie Salad

Picture Updated 12/13/2013  

This is a family recipe - my mom makes it very rarely. Pretty much only at Christmas time and it is my very very favorite dessert of all-time. It doesn't LOOK that appetizing, by looks are deceiving. It's very rich and very delicious. I just used very about 8 billion times :)

Pot Roast Complete

When my husband and I were first tossed into the adult world and fending for ourselves, I tried very unsuccessfully to make pot roast in the oven. When I got my first ever crockpot in December 2007, my mother-in-law (BLESS HER) said crockpot roasts were easy-peasy, hard to screw up and delicious. This recipe is the first recipe I found for crockpot roast and I used it religiously until a few months ago when I risked trying a new one. :)

Menu Plan Monday - Mar. 7

I've been trying to find link up parties on food blogs or even normal blogs for my everyday non-food blog like a crazy person lately.

This one seemed to be a really good idea: Menu Plan Monday on orgjunkie.com/

It actually works out perfectly for me because every Monday I do make a list of meals that I want to make this week and then grocery shop on Tuesday morning. Meal planning is a great way to save money and offer a variety of different foods.

So this week for dinner:

• Chicken Tenders Dinner
• Cheddar Broccoli Soup with Golden Onion Rolls
• Garlic Mashed Potato and Beef Bake
• Freezer Leftovers: Chicken and Pepper Pasta Bake and we will be having Red Velvet Cake for my son's 4th birthday :)
• Brinner (Breakfast for Dinner) - Scrambled eggs with ham and peppers and Basic Breakfast Potatoes
• Stuffed Peppers
• Cheesy Crockpot Chicken over rice

Might I also add, this is a jackpot for me. I love to see what other people are making for dinner and finding new ideas and recipes! YUM :)

When choosing recipes for the week - I try to do 2 non-meat or 1 non-meat/1 seafood, a leftover day, 2 chicken and 2 ground beef. Sometimes I'll do pork or ham meals, but I don't have many of those recipes and my husband and kids are really big pork/ham fans. If we don't do a leftover day, we usually end up with one more chicken meal. I always try to serve a vegetable with meals, sometimes on Brinner nights we do a fruit with the meal instead of a vegetable.

*phew*
So that's about it for MPM...please go to orgjunkie.com/ - link up for MPM, check out her awesome organizing skills!! It's truly amazing and inspiring :)

Broccoli Stuffed Potatoes

Last week was actually the first time in over 2 years that I made these potatoes. They used to be made at least two times a week back before my husband's first deployment.

Delicious Pork & Noodles

Refried Bean Rollups

I classified these as a "copycat" recipe because I think they favor Taco Bell's bean burrito. They are a really quick, inexpensive, super yummy meal.

Too Easy Cheesy Chicken, Broccoli and Rice Casserole

Find the recipe on The Recipe Jackpot

Picture Updated 12/13/2013 

The Marlboro Man Sandwich via Pioneer Woman

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Quickie Quiche

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**NEW PIC TO COME**

Pumpkin Devil's Food Cake

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